# Prevent flash movie from reloading

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/prevent-flash-movie-from-reloading/33779>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 23, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/prevent-flash-movie-from-reloading/33779 "2003-10-23T15:21:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Nocturn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90ced4/32.png) [@Nocturn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Nocturn)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/prevent-flash-movie-from-reloading/33779/1 "2003-10-23T15:21:13Z")

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I don’t want to resort to frames so I’m wondering if this is possible. I have an expanding menu on a php page, when user clicks on one of the menu items and the page reloads, the flash movie gets reload as well. I would like to keep it open to where it was, even if it reloads.

I’m using a modified version of Senoculars accordion menu and I thought the best way would be to pass a variable to the flash movie that tells it which menu the user clicked and so expand that menu.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/prevent-flash-movie-from-reloading/33779/2 "2003-10-23T15:58:41Z")

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Easiest way: Use HTML Frames. Have the navigation in 1 frame and the content in another frame.